Real Coffe - Scott Adams - Episode 3108 - The Scott Adams School 03/05/26 Aired: 2026-03-05 Duration: 01:00:13 === Punch Monkey Update (05:43) === [00:00:01] Good morning, everybody. [00:00:02] Desi, you're first on Rumble. [00:00:04] Hello, Gracie. [00:00:06] Look at you guys filing in. [00:00:10] Brian, ding, ding, ding. [00:00:13] The Scott Adams School, our dojo of persuasion. [00:00:16] There's room up front. [00:00:17] Grab your libation with its audience of authors and bigliest winners. [00:00:22] Let's lambas loser things simultaneous sippers. [00:00:27] All right. [00:00:28] Nice. [00:00:29] Do it again tomorrow. [00:00:30] I'll say it better. [00:00:31] Hello, Hubert. [00:00:33] Tom. [00:00:34] Patty. [00:00:36] Wanda. [00:00:37] Good morning. [00:00:39] Good morning, YouTube. [00:00:41] YouTube, you guys were so extra cute yesterday. [00:00:44] I don't know what it was, but you were. [00:00:47] An X is coming in. [00:00:50] So we have a Punch update. [00:00:53] Can you see what's different looking at the screen today? [00:01:00] Let's look. [00:01:01] Is Punch Monkey representing us somewhere? [00:01:05] Let us know. [00:01:07] Let us know where. [00:01:11] Everybody's like, we just woke up. [00:01:14] It's like the first thing I saw. [00:01:16] I was screaming. [00:01:18] Monkey fever. [00:01:20] Yes, I have Punch Monkey Fever. [00:01:22] Punch Monkey Fever. [00:01:24] Good morning, Ludite. [00:01:28] I'm waiting for somebody to find it. [00:01:34] Java got it. [00:01:35] Java girl. [00:01:37] Okay, look, you guys, point to it, Sergio. [00:01:40] We've got Punch Monkey in the house with a friend. [00:01:45] Look. [00:01:46] Aw, so the Punch Monkey update. [00:01:48] It's not like, I don't have like a definite for sure one. [00:01:51] There's, there's different news coming out, but he is definitely making friends with other, what's he called? [00:02:00] A what, Owen? [00:02:01] Clem. [00:02:02] No, the kind of monkey. [00:02:05] McGake. [00:02:06] McKaki. [00:02:07] McKake. [00:02:08] He's making friends with other macaques. [00:02:10] So that's the good news. [00:02:12] So is everyone in? [00:02:13] Is everyone coming in? [00:02:14] I see someone running in in the back. [00:02:16] Come on. [00:02:18] So he is making friends with other makakis. [00:02:20] So, oh, Jerry, you can't see Punch. [00:02:23] Punch is over Sergio's shoulder on the bottom shelf. [00:02:29] I was so happy to see little Punchy there. [00:02:32] All right, you guys. [00:02:33] Is everyone in? [00:02:34] Grab a seat. [00:02:35] It's time for the simultaneous sip. [00:02:38] Brie, take us away. [00:02:44] Hey, everybody. [00:02:46] Good morning. [00:02:47] It's time for coffee with Scott Adams, the best part of your day. [00:02:52] And it just keeps getting better. [00:02:54] Even when you think it can't, it does. [00:02:57] And all you need is a cup of mugger glass up. [00:02:59] Tanker Chelserstein, the canteen jug, a flash of vessel of any kind. [00:03:02] Fill it with your favorite liquid. [00:03:06] I like coffee. [00:03:07] And the tears of my enemies. [00:03:10] But join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dope meeting of the day. [00:03:14] The thing makes everything better. [00:03:15] It's called a simultaneous sip and watch it happen right now. [00:03:18] Go. [00:03:23] Hello, Northern Colorado. [00:03:25] Good to have you in the house. [00:03:28] Delicious. [00:03:30] These are my enemies. [00:03:32] Oh, I love that. [00:03:33] Same. [00:03:34] I'll drink to that. [00:03:36] Excellent sip today. [00:03:38] Right. [00:03:38] That was excellent. [00:03:39] Most excellent. [00:03:40] So you guys, welcome to the Scott Adams School. [00:03:44] We are carrying on as Scott Adams has asked us to happily to engage with everyone, commune, sip, chat. [00:03:53] And it's so joyful to look over at those streets. [00:03:57] So when I'm looking this way, I'm looking at your comments and everyone's just so sweet and beautiful and familiar, which is also really great. [00:04:07] So good morning to all of you. [00:04:08] We're watching you all as the show goes on. [00:04:12] Scott Adams has his Coffee with Scott Adams videos and streams and lessons. [00:04:18] I would say highly recommend going to scottadams.locals.com because there's much more over there than is available on YouTube, but there's still thousands of hours on YouTube. [00:04:30] Aren't we the luckiest? [00:04:31] We are. [00:04:32] Today I want to mention the names of the two other service members who lost their lives. [00:04:40] And we, you know, we want to share our sorrow, our thanks, and our condolences with their families and loved ones. [00:04:48] They're the fifth and sixth soldiers killed. [00:04:52] We have Major Jeffrey R. O'Brien, 45 of Indianola, Iowa. [00:05:00] And I don't know what CWO is, Owen. [00:05:04] Do you? [00:05:04] Chief Warren Officer. [00:05:05] Thank you. [00:05:06] Chief Warren Officer 3, Robert M. Marzin, 54 of Sacramento, California. [00:05:15] And they paid the ultimate sacrifice, you know, for us. [00:05:21] And so our condolences go out to their families and loved ones. [00:05:28] Okay, so it's like so hard to be like now, but now we're going to go to the news and we have some fun topics picked out for you. [00:05:39] I don't know who's going first. [00:05:42] We didn't introduce ourselves. === Israeli Laser Weapon Effort (15:58) === [00:05:44] Oh, hi. [00:05:45] I'm Erica. [00:05:48] This like that kind of thing. [00:05:49] We already know. [00:05:50] We already know what you guys are. [00:05:51] I'm Erica. [00:05:52] Good morning. [00:05:53] I have half of my mental capacity going right now. [00:05:57] And next to me, I actually can't really tell for sure, but we have Owen Gregorian. [00:06:01] He's still in that library. [00:06:03] He's taken a part-time job in that library. [00:06:05] He's in. [00:06:07] Good morning, everyone. [00:06:09] And then we have our beautiful Marcella today in pink. [00:06:13] Oh, Marcella's added a plant. [00:06:17] I like that. [00:06:17] No, the plant was there. [00:06:19] I just moved it. [00:06:20] Well, let me know what I did differently, everybody in the chat. [00:06:23] And you hung pictures. [00:06:25] Oh, my gosh. [00:06:26] Oh, my gosh. [00:06:27] Okay, this is exciting. [00:06:29] All right. [00:06:30] Amazing. [00:06:31] And then Sergio. [00:06:33] Look at our Sergio and his beautiful adding punch monkeys. [00:06:38] And I see your flag, Sergio, your American flag, lest anyone think that you're Ukrainian. [00:06:44] You're not. [00:06:46] It's just some yellow books. [00:06:48] That's right. [00:06:49] That's right. [00:06:49] Yeah, I burned all the other flags except for this one when I came here. [00:06:55] And thank you very much, Erica. [00:06:56] And good morning to everyone. [00:06:58] Good morning. [00:06:59] Okay, now let's get on with the news. [00:07:02] Now we can get on with the news. [00:07:04] So I'll be starting. [00:07:08] There's rumors that Kurds, Iran, there's a Kurdish-Iran operation. [00:07:14] It's reported by the New York Times. [00:07:16] So, you know, that adds to the fakeness, perhaps. [00:07:22] Pro-American Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are arming up and preparing a possible cross-border strike into Iran. [00:07:29] This could open an explosive new side to the war. [00:07:33] Iran Kurdish leaders and Iraq officials allegedly said these fighters are mobilizing now. [00:07:39] They are ready to hit Iran and draw regime troops into the open for devastating the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. [00:07:45] The CIA has already supplied them allegedly with small arms in a secret pre-war program to destabilize Iran. [00:07:54] The rumors of this Kurdish ground offensive was denied by the Kurdish themselves. [00:08:03] And the rumors that were brought up by the New York Times were later voiced by the New York Post, Axios, everybody else. [00:08:16] But it seems some of the people, some of the journalists that brought it up, not the New York Times, but other journalists, have taken down the story because it's weak and contradictory in sourcing. [00:08:31] I don't, you know, fog of war. [00:08:33] I'm not sure if this is completely true or not. [00:08:37] But if somebody wanted to weaken America in a way, you would let out this idea that the Kurdish are arming themselves. [00:08:46] The Kurdish are a autonomous people that do not have a nation state, are not very well liked by the Iraqis, the Iranians. [00:08:57] They're like their own little thing and nobody likes them, but nobody's given them a state. [00:09:04] There was a story that Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, had made an agreement with the Kurdish leaders that if they were going to attack Iraq and get rid of the leadership, that they would be recognized as a nation. [00:09:18] I don't know. [00:09:19] That hasn't been confirmed by the IDF or by Israel. [00:09:24] So there you are. [00:09:26] So over to you guys. [00:09:29] Yeah. [00:09:29] Or Owen, if you want to. [00:09:30] I have nothing to add to that because I just don't know. [00:09:33] Well, I would just add that this is still Fog of War II. [00:09:37] That I believe the story I posted about this mentioned that the White House says this is BS, and even some spokesman for the Kurdish forces said this is not true. [00:09:51] So, you know, this is a rumor at this point, is where I would say. [00:09:55] I mean, I'm not going to say it's not true because, you know, it could be that they're just trying to plan this stuff, but they want it to be a surprise. [00:10:01] So they're denying it until something happens. [00:10:03] But, or it could be that the CIA is trying to plant these stories to make it happen, which is quite possible that they might say, oh, the Kurds, you know, they're against the IDRC and they're going to come in and do this and try and put them in a position where maybe they'd get attacked and then they'd be pulled into it. [00:10:23] So lots of possibilities here, but I just, I would just say I'm not sure what's true about this. [00:10:30] From a political relations part of the war, you know, this association with the Kurdish is like not the best, right, for America to be associated because it smells like Iraq, right? [00:10:42] It smells like Kurdish. [00:10:46] Yeah, so it gives you that bad association. [00:10:49] So I think it sounds like a psyop, like, but I agree with you a little bit, Owen. [00:10:54] You didn't say it, but, you know, kind of you did. [00:10:57] And we'll wait and see what happens, right? [00:11:00] Yeah, Fogo War. [00:11:01] Pogo war. [00:11:02] Okay. [00:11:02] Owen, do you have the? [00:11:05] Well, there's a story that Amazon's Bahrain data center has been targeted by Iran because they're supporting the U.S. military. [00:11:13] I know there was a report about them being hit, or at least some of the Amazon data centers being hit in the area. [00:11:19] They were damaged on Sunday. [00:11:23] I think they were all offline at that point, but they had some structural damage, some power and water issues, things like that. [00:11:30] I think there's some people advising that people migrate all their workloads to other regions. [00:11:35] It looks like Bahrain region announced in 2019 that they were going to start hosting government workloads. [00:11:41] So they are doing something with the government, but we don't know exactly if they're supporting this military effort. [00:11:45] And I would just, you know, put that in to say it's kind of hard to say like where is Iran going to draw the line between military and civilian because you would certainly think this is not a military facility, right? [00:11:58] It has nothing to do with the military. [00:12:00] It's not, I mean, again, they might be supporting some kind of compute that's supporting some of the things the military are doing. [00:12:06] It's hard to know exactly what's happening and where, but the facility itself is not military. [00:12:11] It's not, you know, housing any soldiers, things like that. [00:12:15] And was it intentional? [00:12:18] Well, the story is, and I think so, because the story is that they targeted it on purpose for that reason, and it came from a spokesman from Iran. [00:12:29] So, yeah, it looks like it was intentional that they were targeting that. [00:12:34] Oh, can someone in the chat check Amazon stock and tell us if it changed since that happened? [00:12:40] I'm just curious. [00:12:42] You know, that reminds me of, it might be strategic, maybe, like you said, OWN data and analysis and all that, but it sounds like a lot of like rantings again, of a, of a, of a dying desperate, you know, like just like other dying people, you know, that they just get desperate and they just start throwing punches out there indiscriminately. [00:13:04] And that happened to Tesla, right? [00:13:07] To Elon. [00:13:08] People started burning Teslas and all that. [00:13:11] So now it's Bezos' turn, you know. [00:13:14] Yeah, well, it's, I mean, I think it's, you know, it's just, it's been for many hundreds of years, I guess, tradition not to target civilians in military efforts. [00:13:27] Westphalia was the agreement that was made to say, okay, we're going to have a separate military and a separate civilian, and we're not going to attack the civilian part. [00:13:35] And that's been at least a gentleman's agreement in pretty much every war since then. [00:13:39] And it's considered, you know, breaking the rules of war, even though, you know, I don't know, you could debate whether there are such a thing, but that you're not supposed to go after civilians, right? [00:13:50] Like every time there is a hospital or a school or somebody that wasn't having any military connection, that's considered wrong in wartime. [00:13:59] And so this, I think, is at least on the borderline there. [00:14:03] I mean, you could certainly make an argument from their perspective that if they're housing government workloads, then maybe they're doing some sort of military processing that's supporting the effort. [00:14:12] But again, it's not a military facility. [00:14:16] And it's more of a generalized compute facility that lots of people use. [00:14:21] And so I would question whether that kind of crosses the line. [00:14:24] But I do have another story on Jeff Bezos, not related to the war, but apparently they are raising billions of dollars to buy manufacturers that are being disrupted by AI. [00:14:38] So he's got something called an AI lab called Project Prometheus. [00:14:45] He's going to be transforming manufacturing for jet engines, chips, things like that. [00:14:49] He's talking to people like Jamie Diamond and Abu Dhabi to raise funds for it. [00:14:54] And it looks like for some of these companies that have had their stock price reduced a lot because people think AI is going to disrupt their business, Jeff Bezos is looking into swoop in and buy them up. [00:15:06] What do you think about that? [00:15:09] I don't know. [00:15:09] I mean, to me, it might be a smart move. [00:15:12] It's also something I would not applaud if I were saying, you know, I don't want these smaller companies to become bigger companies or for Amazon's empire to keep getting bigger. [00:15:22] But I mean, technically, this isn't Amazon, but it is Jeff Bezos. [00:15:25] So, you know, if he buys a company, it's probably kind of the same thing. [00:15:29] And thank you to the chat. [00:15:30] Their stock is up. [00:15:32] Thanks for looking. [00:15:36] There's laser weapons in the Operation Epic Fury. [00:15:40] Anything like future, like, I love, you know, I'm a Star Trek fan. [00:15:48] Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I am. [00:15:51] New York Post details the deployment of U.S. laser weapons, set them to stun, including the Navy's Helios and Odin systems. [00:16:01] I love the names. [00:16:03] The U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran starting in February that neutralized over 200 Iranian ballistic missiles launchers with just six U.S. casualties. [00:16:14] There was a study on the lasers, and I guess it's unlimited ammo, but at the same time, it's limited at this point because the atmosphere reduces the range against high-speed missiles, suggesting that the main thing that you could use lasers for is drones and small threats and retaliation attempts. [00:16:41] And the force that is involved in the laser shooting, I suppose, is Space Force, which was created back in 2019 under Donald Trump's first administration term. [00:16:58] So any laser thing, Sergio? [00:17:01] I love this story so much. [00:17:02] Lasers are, I grew up, I mean, I grew up wanting to be around lasers and then I ended up working with lasers for many years. [00:17:11] Then my last job was a product manager at a company. [00:17:16] 2009, I left the company and they were developing this kind of stuff, but not exactly. [00:17:24] Okay. [00:17:25] It was high voltage directed through a laser. [00:17:29] But it was the idea was the same for defense to destroy the enemy. [00:17:35] But let me take you back to the 1980s a little bit. [00:17:38] Okay. [00:17:38] So Reagan famously showed the world what America was potentially able to do, right? [00:17:46] Star Wars. [00:17:47] And the idea is that, you know, don't worry, we're going to protect you. [00:17:51] We have these laser beams. [00:17:53] Right now, we only have the movies of it, right? [00:17:56] i met the guy that created the the cgi for that and they actually created um going into yeah to to show it to reagan right when they were trying to sell the technology and they had a missile going into santa barbara where he's from to make sure that he knew that Okay, but that's a side story. [00:18:16] The thing is that in 1980s it was, it was just like a sign, fantasy right, Star Wars, the movies and everything. [00:18:21] It was just a fantasy. [00:18:23] And then 2000s, I started. [00:18:25] You know, I was working in a company with a secret clearance that I couldn't say anything, but it was just the marketing guys showing pictures of boats with laser beams right, and to sell the story. [00:18:38] Yesterday, when I saw it happening, I almost got a tear in my eye right, to see that happening in real life, that we're living in the future. [00:18:47] Right now we are actually it's happening. [00:18:50] And and when? [00:18:50] When Trump said we have unlimited supply. [00:18:54] That's what a lot of this means, you know, because it's just electricity, it's just energy you can destroy, you can be kinetic. [00:19:01] Now you can uh, take anything you want out and it's amazing. [00:19:06] So that's what you wanted. [00:19:07] I'm glad that you brought that story out because it reminds me of my children my, my childhood, you know and ah, that's? [00:19:14] I mean like, who would have thought? [00:19:16] Someone here has a laser passion it's Sergio, and where are my ladies? [00:19:23] Instead of hair removal, like like laser for your skin, I mean, we use in the company at WAR TWO uh, another company we use lasers to grow hair and also to take out hair. [00:19:34] Yes, we do that too. [00:19:38] Yes, all right, that was good news and I well I, I think, uh it, I still think we have a ways to go with drone defense and even with lasers. [00:19:50] I think we're not as not where we need to be in terms of capacity and all that, but I do think it seems to be the way of the future. [00:19:56] I think the iron beam is the Israeli laser weapon and that apparently, is being used in this effort, So I guess we're finding out how effective it is. [00:20:05] And as far as I know, Israel is doing pretty well in terms of getting rid of most of the missiles coming in. [00:20:11] And it does seem like it's the most promising method they have. [00:20:14] And I know we've been testing some things in Texas around those areas to shoot down drones. [00:20:19] So it does seem like we're moving in that direction. [00:20:21] But I think, you know, from what I understand, some of this is being done with satellites too. [00:20:27] We're not shooting them down from space, but, you know, just detecting launches and things like that and being able to target things pretty precisely. [00:20:36] But I think at this point, we're still shooting things down with, you know, Patriot missiles and things like that. [00:20:40] So I think we still have a ways to go to get more efficient. [00:20:44] Because I think one of the problems right now is it's so asymmetric. [00:20:46] You have maybe a $50,000 SHA head drone and we're shooting it down with a million dollar missile. [00:20:53] So that doesn't really make sustainable sense over a longer period of time. [00:20:58] I still think we're going to come out on top on this one because I think we've pretty much taken out their capability to even launch things. [00:21:04] But, you know, in terms of longer term where things are headed, I think we need to get better with the lasers and other things to be able to put up some kind of real defense against drones. [00:21:15] Interesting. [00:21:15] I mean, like, there's so many interesting comments about, you know, maybe the Maui fire was started by a laser. [00:21:24] Yeah. [00:21:24] Or Paradise Fire in California was set to have started that way. [00:21:29] Yeah, all those blue roofs, you know, if you paint your roof blue. [00:21:33] Or if it's a direct energy weapon. [00:21:36] I think we're getting into conspiracy theory territory at this point. [00:21:39] All right. [00:21:40] Owen, do you have another story? [00:21:41] Well, we're talking about drones. === Drones And Protesters (06:34) === [00:21:43] So let me throw in that there's the world's first bamboo fiber drone that reached 62 miles an hour in its first test flight in China. [00:21:51] So they made a, it's one of the fixed wing, you know, like plane style drones. [00:21:56] But the wingspan is like eight feet, two inches. [00:21:58] It only weighs 15 pounds. [00:22:00] It does vertical takeoff and landing. [00:22:01] It can go over 62 miles an hour. [00:22:03] It can stay in the air over an hour. [00:22:06] And it's like 20% lighter and 20% cheaper than carbon fiber. [00:22:10] So I guess my question is, Sergei, are you going to have a bamboo drone pretty soon? [00:22:15] You know what? [00:22:16] Anything that is, if it was American made, I will buy it. [00:22:19] You know, I don't care if it's made of, you know, weed. [00:22:23] I don't care. [00:22:24] As long as it's hemp, you can make it out of hemp. [00:22:28] But we need American drones. [00:22:30] They're all Chinese made. [00:22:32] They have the best technology for rescue operations, for everything. [00:22:37] And the American is not there yet. [00:22:40] So we need people like Steve Jobs. [00:22:43] We need somebody that invents new stuff. [00:22:46] I know we have our friend James, maybe he can invent the drones for America, from the spaces, the inventor of the phone. [00:22:56] We know him. [00:22:57] So we can recruit him into this. [00:23:00] Yeah, I don't know when you want me to say on these men. [00:23:04] I have a story unless Erica has something to say about bamboo. [00:23:11] No. [00:23:12] Okay. [00:23:14] I have a good story. [00:23:16] It's a U.S. senator versus a veteran Marine protester. [00:23:20] I don't know. [00:23:20] Most of you probably saw the video on X or on Facebook, dear Lord. [00:23:26] There was a dramatic moment on Capitol Hill when Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana, a former Navy SEAL, stepped in to assist the U.S. Capitol Police to forcefully remove a disruptive protester. [00:23:43] His name was, his name is, he's still with us, it's Brian C. McGinnis, Marine Corps veteran from North Carolina, but he is also a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate. [00:23:57] He got what he wanted, as Scott would say, part of persuasion is getting attention. [00:24:03] And McGinnis has now made it where he's been, his videos are being shared. [00:24:10] His wife's videos are being shared. [00:24:12] So he got maybe what he wanted. [00:24:16] So basically, he was protesting, saying that, you know, no one wants to fight for Israel. [00:24:22] That basically our sons and daughters are dying for Israel. [00:24:26] And that's what he was yelling at at the subcommittee. [00:24:31] And I know that the Capitol police officers, three of them, were injured. [00:24:36] And when Sheehi, and Senator Sheehy later said that he intervened to de-escalate the situation because the Marine was Marine veteran was fighting back. [00:24:49] I have wanted to show you the little clip here. [00:24:51] Yeah. [00:24:52] I heard he broke his hand too, the protester. [00:24:54] It was alleged that Sheehi, the senator, broke McGinnis's hand when he grabbed them right there. [00:25:02] So Sheehi is the one with the suit. [00:25:04] Yeah, he just came in. [00:25:06] He's a big remember a video is not always, you know. [00:25:09] Yeah. [00:25:09] He's like, I think he was trying to get the door. [00:25:12] He's like, let go already. [00:25:14] But the guy's got that Marine strength and the anger. [00:25:19] Uh-oh, Stella's here, just warning you. [00:25:21] Oh, yes. [00:25:22] I think this guy is also a candidate for public office somewhere like in Congress. [00:25:27] So yeah, he's very much a political stunt. [00:25:30] He's a candidate for the Green Party for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina. [00:25:35] It was a bummer to see that, though, like in his uniform and everything. [00:25:38] I was like, you know, there's better. [00:25:41] He also did a video of with his, his wife is, I'm not sure if he's Muslim, but his wife is wearing hijab and has made different anti-Israeli statements. [00:25:54] Is his wife Linda Sarsour? [00:25:57] No, they said that she looked like her, but they were post that said that. [00:26:02] Yeah, then some people were like, That's not really her. [00:26:05] So it's to be determined, I suppose. [00:26:08] But he himself has made videos, which Laura Loomer shared today on X, where he's wearing a kefiya. [00:26:16] A kefiya is a black and white scarf that means Palestinian resistance. [00:26:22] And he was saying in this video that Laura got that he is Palestinian. [00:26:29] So all right, well, let's not give him any more attention until he wants to act like that. [00:26:33] The only thing I would add to it is just I don't think it's right that he would do that kind of protest in his military uniform. [00:26:40] Oh, yeah, that's the other thing. [00:26:41] Well, yeah, I mean, from a okay, so just from a visual perception point of view, it is amazing, you know, with the uniform, specifically using the uniform specifically because it creates that division in people's minds, right? [00:26:54] Like, oh, that's dishonor. [00:26:56] But the other side is like, wow, Tom Cruise, 4 July, you know, the hero out there, you know, saying, seriously, that's the programming already. [00:27:03] So in people's heads. [00:27:05] So this is the thing. [00:27:06] Like, it used to be that politicians, when they wanted to campaign, they had to go on the radio, give interviews, and write a book and all this stuff, right? [00:27:16] Now they go like, what is the nearest place where I can get arrested? [00:27:20] You know, I'm trying to protest, make a big deal, get your broken arm. [00:27:25] And we are here in Tucson. [00:27:28] It's a shame. [00:27:29] That was a shame. [00:27:30] I just think he could have made this. [00:27:32] I just think he could have made the same spectacle without the uniform. [00:27:35] Yeah. [00:27:35] You know, he could have done the same exact thing with the same resistance, everything else, and he probably would have gotten just as much publicity. [00:27:42] But by doing it in uniform, I think he disgraced the uniform. [00:27:45] He disgraced himself. [00:27:47] And other Marines. [00:27:49] Because you can't politicize the military uniform that way. [00:27:55] You just can't do it. [00:27:56] Either side. [00:27:57] You just can't say bad things about the government when you're in uniform. [00:28:03] That's trained from the very beginning. [00:28:05] He knows that. [00:28:06] Everybody knows that. [00:28:07] And anybody who's familiar with the military will know that you're not supposed to make any kind of political statements when you're in uniform. [00:28:13] It's like burning a flag, right? [00:28:15] If you burn a flag, you get a lot of hate, right? === Wages and Young Workers (04:03) === [00:28:17] Like right now, right? [00:28:19] You know, we're going to feel like, oh man, this guy is respecting the uniform. [00:28:23] The energy, that's what they want. [00:28:25] Well, it's a little different because I believe, I don't know, I think it's illegal to use the uniform for political reasons. [00:28:31] You make an oath while a flag, like you're not making an oath, and that's been known to be allowed under freedom of speech. [00:28:39] While I believe wearing a uniform and making any kind of political statement on either side is not allowed. [00:28:47] All right, let's move on. [00:28:48] I can't stand this guy for doing that. [00:28:50] And he is a disgrace and he should be ashamed of himself, but he clearly has no shame. [00:28:56] I don't want to hear about him ever again. [00:28:58] Okay. [00:28:58] All right, Owen. [00:29:00] Well, apparently, the DC restaurants are facing an existential threat because Trump is getting rid of all the illegal immigrants. [00:29:08] They apparently have lost a bunch of workers due to letters that are checking all their legal status. [00:29:13] They have 10 days to respond or they face $5,724 fines per person. [00:29:19] Some have lost dozens of cooks and servers and managers, and they're worried that the whole industry is going to collapse. [00:29:26] So that's happening. [00:29:28] I do think personally, I applaud being consistent and actually going after the work permit part of this because I think overall, I've said for a very long time, I think the way to stop illegal immigration is to take away all the financial incentives. [00:29:42] And, you know, starting with things like welfare and medical care and free education and all the different handouts and cash that we're giving these people. [00:29:49] But I think their ability to work is another piece of it. [00:29:53] I'm sure there are a lot of people that are working under the table and it's hard to stop that. [00:29:56] But wherever you can, I think you need to say, you know, we should not only go after the people who are working illegally, but the companies that are employing them. [00:30:04] And so I think that it's to me, it's a good thing that they're starting to do this. [00:30:08] And I do think it may be an issue in terms of how we staff these restaurants. [00:30:12] But I think, you know, hopefully that would mean they would raise wages to the points where Americans would want to work there. [00:30:18] And it might mean prices have to go up. [00:30:20] But, you know, to me, it shouldn't be that you would subsidize things by having illegal immigrants do the jobs. [00:30:27] Well, you know, there was this idea that Gen C or teenagers, I don't know, Gen Alpha, I suppose, they weren't able to get jobs. [00:30:40] Now that could be a thing where like young people can actually work at restaurants like they did in the past. [00:30:47] And there are other people looking for a job now. [00:30:50] I know that that type of job wouldn't garner much wages. [00:30:55] And DC is very expensive. [00:30:57] Virginia, also the metro area there is very expensive to live. [00:31:02] So, you know, it could be somebody young people can work there, I suppose. [00:31:10] Yeah, the only thing is, is young people don't want to do these jobs anymore for some reason. [00:31:15] I mean, maybe if the wages were slightly higher, but you know, it's weird how like these jobs, like, can I just use McDonald's as an example? [00:31:24] Cause that's what we always used when I was a kid. [00:31:27] You know, you'd say like you get a job at McDonald's like after high school, like while you're, it's a stepping stone, right? [00:31:34] So like McDonald's, something like that, was or like working in a restaurant, like a busboy, a waitress, like a diner or something. [00:31:42] It was supposed to be a stepping stone while you're like my first job, McDonald's. [00:31:47] There you go, right? [00:31:48] So like it's a stepping stone to your next thing to your career. [00:31:51] And like you just keep advancing and advancing and advancing. [00:31:54] But the problem is, is now it's become a thing where people are like, well, I can't pay my mortgage working at McDonald's. [00:32:01] And it's like, but you were never supposed to pay your mortgage working at McDonald's. [00:32:05] But it's like, you know, so we're, so it's like, okay, so if we raise the wages, are more people going to get stuck at McDonald's thinking they can buy a house? [00:32:14] Or are young people going to step up and be like, okay, we'll fulfill those jobs like the way it kind of was supposed to be? === Racist Reporting? (08:39) === [00:32:20] I don't know. [00:32:21] I don't know if it's going to matter. [00:32:24] That's Trump's slogan: lower prices, higher wages. [00:32:28] He's always doing that. [00:32:29] So we'll see how we get those through. [00:32:32] Yeah. [00:32:33] Tim Waltz testified before Congress in regards to the Minnesota fraud. [00:32:39] He was before the House Oversight Committee yesterday and answering questions. [00:32:45] So was the Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, who's a blast. [00:32:52] So basically, it was just again a kabuki theater. [00:32:56] Like there's just acting, the Democrats on one side, all they wanted to ask or defend Tim Waltz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. [00:33:06] All they did was Talib was there. [00:33:10] All she did was like, oh, have you seen the fraud Trump has created? [00:33:15] Like, how dare he? [00:33:16] The other congresswoman was reading like how many children were left orphaned by ICE killing their parents. [00:33:26] Yet nobody mentions that the reason ICE had to do anything with their parents is because they did some illegal action, which is come to this country illegally. [00:33:34] But anyways, and not listening to them while giving them orders. [00:33:40] But basically, the Democrats on one side did not want to talk about the fraud and just reacted in this fashion. [00:33:47] But Jim Jordan, represent Jim Jordan, accused the Minnesota governor of misleading the public. [00:33:54] He questioned him, Tim Waltz. [00:33:57] Tim Waltz was shaking his, I guess, his shoes, his boots. [00:34:00] I don't know. [00:34:01] He doesn't say his boots, but he was like, oh my God, oh my God. [00:34:04] He looked really nervous and he didn't know how to answer certain questions. [00:34:11] Basically, he was asked about a Feeding Our Future children nutrition fraud scandal that came up in 2021. [00:34:20] So in 2021, the Feeding Our Future NGO, or however you're going to say it, was found. [00:34:27] There were fraud concerns in March of 2021. [00:34:31] In April of 2010, in March of 2021, the Minnesota government stopped funding it because they were giving it $250 million. [00:34:40] I mean, not $2, not $3, $250. [00:34:44] And they stopped it once they found out there was fraud. [00:34:47] In April, one month later, they allowed the funding to go forward. [00:34:52] And Jim Jordan went after Tim Wallace and wanted to know why the funding continued after knowing there was possible fraud. [00:35:02] And then Tim Wallace came back and said, Oh, there was an order by a judge saying that we needed to do that. [00:35:08] Jim Jordan, of course, did his homework. [00:35:10] There was no order by any kind of judge. [00:35:12] The presiding judge never did such an order and caught him red-handed. [00:35:17] Tim Wallace did not know how to answer that. [00:35:20] Tim Wallace also were asked regarding whether reporting fraud was racist. [00:35:27] And he was like, Oh, no, I've never done that. [00:35:33] A lot of the people that have come out and actually the they have actually reported the fraud have been Democrats themselves. [00:35:43] And they've been told that they're racist because a lot of the fraud that's being alleged or has been prosecuted is by Somali Americans or Somalis themselves. [00:35:57] So the administration of Tim Wallace has always pushed back on these people that have come out with, you know, whistleblowers that have come out against it and have been ostracized allegedly pursuant to these whistleblowers. [00:36:18] And he was questioned and he was like, oh, no, I don't know anything about that. [00:36:23] So a lot of I don't know's when it came down to it. [00:36:27] And then Talib was questioning Keith Ellison. [00:36:30] She said, Oh, Attorney General Keith Ellison, what would you be doing right now? [00:36:37] Like, instead of being here, what would you be doing? [00:36:40] Because obviously you'd be inventing gravity or something, you know? [00:36:43] Not that she said that, but that's the feeling, like, oh, how wasteful is your time that you have to be here to talk about fraud that you've possibly done on the people of Minnesota? [00:36:56] And then Attorney General Ellison said, Oh, oh my gosh, yeah, that's a good question. [00:37:03] I would be doing, actually, I was supposed to work on a fraud regulation legislation in regards to fraud because I'm an anti-fraud person. [00:37:15] And that's what you get. [00:37:17] So there you are. [00:37:19] I have nothing to add to that, but except for I freaking love Brandon Gill. [00:37:25] Do you guys know Brandon Gill? [00:37:27] Oh, he went after Tim Waltz, too. [00:37:30] So good. [00:37:30] So he's married to Dinesh D'Souza's daughter, Brandon Gill. [00:37:35] And he has like the most monotone, dry way of speaking. [00:37:40] And he's just like, what is he, Walt? [00:37:44] He's a senator? [00:37:45] No, a governor? [00:37:47] He's like, Governor Walse, do you believe it's racist to talk about fraud? [00:37:56] Oh, yeah, yeah, it wasn't like, uh, no, it's not racist. [00:38:00] And he's like, Do you believe it? [00:38:02] You know, like, whatever he says, and so he gets Walls to like agree, like, well, none of those things would be racist. [00:38:07] He's like, Then why is it, sir, that? [00:38:10] And he like just keeps going on and on. [00:38:12] But Brandon Gill, you guys, he is one to watch. [00:38:14] He just won re-election. [00:38:16] Thank God. [00:38:17] Um, I think he looks like Superman. [00:38:22] He's just a guy. [00:38:24] He's comedy gold. [00:38:26] He is comedy gold and he's so effective. [00:38:29] And what I like is, you know, he's like a younger generation. [00:38:33] He just shows me, once again, like term limits, please. [00:38:37] Let these younger people come in who are more cunning and you know how to use persuasion better. [00:38:45] I love him. [00:38:46] So, Brandon Gill, make sure you guys follow him just for ladies, should follow him for sure. [00:38:55] I enjoyed the whiteboard lesson that Nancy Mace put on during this display when she brought out the whiteboard and she was trying to lead through the migration math, immigration math or something like that, where she was like, Okay, in 2017, Tim, you know, how much was your state spending on autism? [00:39:12] And of course, Tim's like, I don't know, I don't have that number. [00:39:15] And he kept saying that sort of response to everything that she was saying. [00:39:18] And she, he, and she eventually was like, Did you prepare for this at all? [00:39:22] Like, did you prepare for this briefing? [00:39:26] Because, like, you don't seem to know basic facts, like, even how many kids you have in your state. [00:39:30] And he's like, Well, I don't know. [00:39:32] And he didn't really have an answer for that. [00:39:34] He's like, Of course, I prepared for this. [00:39:35] And it's like, Well, you don't seem to know very basic facts about things. [00:39:40] I mean, an attorney in me would say if a client was coming to me and they were going to be deposed or they would testify in front of government. [00:39:47] The main thing is, I don't recall. [00:39:49] I don't know. [00:39:51] Um, unless you want to pigeon point yourself into it. [00:39:55] So, yeah, no, I get that. [00:39:58] But he's also a governor of a huge state of Minnesota. [00:40:01] So, he's representing his people. [00:40:03] Yeah, I get that from a legal defense standpoint and that he has to be careful about what he says. [00:40:09] But this, the questions Being asked were just basic things like, how much did you spend in this year on this thing? [00:40:16] Or how many, like, what's the total population of your state? [00:40:20] How many of those are kids? [00:40:22] What is your name? [00:40:24] What's your state flag? [00:40:26] So it definitely embarrassed him, I think, to say he didn't even really know how many people were. [00:40:30] He was nervous. [00:40:31] He was very nervous. [00:40:33] And so, you know, she was basically making the point, just if you didn't watch it, that they spent like something like $1 million on autism in 2017 and some like massively bigger number a few years later and it didn't make any sense because like 46 million. [00:40:48] Yeah, it was crazy. [00:40:50] And so I don't know. [00:40:52] I just enjoyed the whiteboard lesson. [00:40:53] It made me think a little bit of Scott where he brings out his whiteboard. [00:40:57] She's funny, Mace. === Supreme Court Win on Immigration (09:53) === [00:40:59] Yeah. [00:41:00] All right. [00:41:01] Well, I'm going to go back to immigration. [00:41:02] I have a couple of stories, actually. [00:41:03] One is that we had a big win in Supreme Court. [00:41:07] They ruled that Trump, well, that immigration judges basically have the say over whether someone's deported. [00:41:17] And you can't just go to a regular judge and have them overrule what the asylum judge said. [00:41:23] So interestingly, it was unanimous. [00:41:27] The opinion was written by Katanji Brown Jackson. [00:41:32] And so, you know, it was interesting to me that just across the board, including who you would expect to be against it, is basically ruling that says you can't just go to a court and cry and say the asylum judge didn't give me the right decision. [00:41:44] And any judge could just overrule it. [00:41:46] That basically it has to be a much higher standard. [00:41:49] They said it's conclusive in the asylum judge hearing unless a reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude the contrary. [00:41:58] And they defined a substantial evidence standard. [00:42:01] So if there is substantial evidence, basically that means that decision is final. [00:42:04] So it means a lot more people could probably get deported a lot more quickly. [00:42:07] It's going to be a lot harder to fight these things. [00:42:11] And so we had a unanimous decision for Trump. [00:42:15] And then in Colorado, like a lot of places, ICE has been having this problem with people tracking their vehicles. [00:42:22] And, you know, so they have a new undercover vehicle, a new model car that they're using. [00:42:26] Can you guess what it is? [00:42:29] Is it a Tesla? [00:42:31] I don't know. [00:42:31] No, that would be a better choice. [00:42:34] Think opposite. [00:42:36] A Toyota, a Cadillac. [00:42:40] Cadillac. [00:42:42] No. [00:42:43] Don't let us guess. [00:42:44] It'll be really wiener mobile. [00:42:47] What is it? [00:42:48] What would be a kind of car that you would not expect ICE to be driving or that would potentially be the people that would be protesting ICE might be driving? [00:42:56] Oh, a super. [00:42:59] You got it. [00:42:59] It's a super outback. [00:43:01] They're starting to use super outbacks now as their undercover vehicles. [00:43:07] Nick Sortor was posting about this and he said, you know, it's a brilliant tactic. [00:43:11] It's the official vehicle of white leftist lesbians. [00:43:14] And so it's going to be a lot harder for them to tell when there's an ICE person driving down their streets. [00:43:19] Everybody was guessing in the chat. [00:43:21] They were like guessing. [00:43:22] And you got to put like stupid stickers all over the back of it. [00:43:25] Well, there was someone who replied said they should put a coexist bumper sticker on it. [00:43:29] You know, so something about the environment. [00:43:32] They're wondering whether people are going to start going after the white leftist lesbians and their super outbacks now that they know this. [00:43:38] I'm with her. [00:43:39] Yeah. [00:43:41] I love that. [00:43:43] All righty. [00:43:44] The U.S. Senate rejects war powers check on Trump. [00:43:48] Just the news reporting that the U.S. Senator delivered a major blow to efforts to limit President Trump's military campaign in Iran. [00:43:55] The decisive vote was 47 to 53, largely along party lines. [00:44:00] Interestingly enough, Republican Senator Rand Paul voted against Trump having this war power. [00:44:09] And another interesting but not surprising Democratic Senator John Fetterman voted with the Republicans to allow for Trump to keep going in Operation Epic Fury. [00:44:21] And that was that worried some people whether the Senate could actually get a vote and pass something. [00:44:31] And a lot of personalities online, I think Jack Posovic online was reposting it and said, now do the SAVE Act. [00:44:41] I think it was him. [00:44:43] Some of the people were like, okay, so now you did this. [00:44:45] So we know you can actually vote and actually do something. [00:44:50] So the SAVE Act was regarding the voting for voting ID for federal elections that has not been put to the floor in the Senate. [00:45:00] It has been stuck basically in limbo. [00:45:04] But it's good. [00:45:05] I mean, it shows that the U.S. Senate supports Trump in this operation. [00:45:13] They've been given intelligence regarding it by now. [00:45:18] So if there's sufficient evidence for them to support it, but party lines, except for Rand and Fetterman, Federman's poor man's poor man's wait, what was his name? [00:45:33] The guy that used to be there? [00:45:35] Manchester Fetterman's the poor man's Joe Mansion. [00:45:40] Fetterman is, you know, even the name says, right, Federman, he has men on the name, right? [00:45:45] He is the best, strongest man in their party, right? [00:45:51] And now he's siding in the common sense side with Trump. [00:45:57] That's an amazing shift that I'm seeing, right? [00:45:59] To see, you know, he had a brain damage, right? [00:46:04] He went through brain damage, you know, repair and he's, you know, thinking so great now. [00:46:10] I mean, I love it. [00:46:13] He was watching the news. [00:46:14] What are you saying about Republicans, Sergio? [00:46:17] What do you mean? [00:46:18] Like, you know, I mean, the Republicans that are pro-Trump, they are pro-American, so that's great. [00:46:24] I'm saying Federman was a Democrat, then he was brain damaged, and now he's thinking like a Republican. [00:46:29] Is that what you're saying? [00:46:31] Well, he just like a Democrat. [00:46:35] Man, Erica is good at bringing up Mansion because what would Scott say about Fedderman? [00:46:41] Fetterman now has a lot of power because he can, his vote can be the society. [00:46:52] Yeah. [00:46:54] Federman found the money. [00:46:55] Fedderman is the guy that found the money, right? [00:46:58] Scott used to say that he will not leave the money that he will pick up the money. [00:47:02] He picked it up. [00:47:03] So last night he was watching the news and he was saying, wow, look at that torpedo attack. [00:47:09] He watched boom. [00:47:10] Yeah, he was watching it and he's excited about it because it is a worthy fight that we're fighting. [00:47:18] And it's going to be painful sacrifice, but it's being done for the future generations, for our kids, basically. [00:47:28] I do love watching Federman when they were talking about, you know, the press was talking to him, like you're saying, about the ships being sunk or whatever. [00:47:36] He's like, it was actually pretty cool. [00:47:38] It's just like, yeah, you're just being honest. [00:47:41] Like, you're just using common sense. [00:47:43] It's okay. [00:47:44] You don't have to be a puppet, right? [00:47:46] You're allowed to say what people are actually thinking without, you know, putting a filter on like, will my friends be mad at me? [00:47:53] So I appreciate that. [00:47:55] And there are these exceptions, but I would also say if you looked at Fetterman's record, he pretty much votes Democrat most of the time. [00:48:00] So, you know, don't be fooled that he's some Republican in disguise. [00:48:03] He's not. [00:48:05] But it's giving the role model a chance, you know, giving people a chance on the left to say, you know what, I can do that too. [00:48:12] I can also stand up and be like Fedderman. [00:48:16] Maybe. [00:48:18] Yeah, I mean, I just, I just want to be, you know, clear that I don't really think Fetterman is on our side. [00:48:25] I don't think he's there. [00:48:26] I do think he's smarter than a lot of the other ones in terms of how he talks. [00:48:30] But I think, you know, it probably would be a better strategy if more Democrats were like him and were more reasonable and would speak more common sense rather than just embracing this radical agenda and saying crazy things all the time. [00:48:45] But, you know, to me, that's the extent of it. [00:48:48] Like he still votes with the Democrats most of the time. [00:48:51] And I find this whole thing kind of just a bunch of theater because correct me if I'm wrong, but if they had passed this resolution, wouldn't it have just been vetoed? [00:48:59] Well, I mean, theater is the show. [00:49:01] The show is the theater, right? [00:49:03] Theater is everything. [00:49:04] It's the persuasion of it, right? [00:49:06] There's no separation between the theater part and the government part basically is all together now, right? [00:49:12] Well, I mean, to an extent, but my point is that, like, my understanding is any legislation relating to this would have to be signed by the president and he can veto it, right? [00:49:22] Yeah. [00:49:23] And there's also the issue of, besides the veto, there's also the issue where the War Powers Act is even constitutional, which is what Marco Ruby was alleging was saying that they've done the 48-hour notice to Congress and they've talked to the eighth gang of eight. [00:49:47] The gang of eight. [00:49:48] And basically, he was saying that the War Powers Act in their determination is not constitutional and does not allow Congress to tell the executive branch what to do in regards to war, as it's the commander-in-chief that does that. [00:50:07] So you can see that he could have vetoed it. [00:50:10] And also there's so much precedent behind this. [00:50:15] I mean, everything from Iraq to all the different things we've done in Afghanistan, everywhere else, that it all follows that same procedure. [00:50:24] What does that tell you, Owen, that they support it? [00:50:26] So like the optics is the persuasion is that they are supportive of the president, right? [00:50:34] So that that's help. [00:50:36] That's helpful. [00:50:37] Yeah, well, I mean, certainly it does help to just say, okay, there's more Republicans that support him, or most of the Republicans support him. [00:50:45] And that seems to match the polls too, that, you know, almost all mega Republicans support what the president is doing. [00:50:51] It seems very divided in terms of that. === United States Divided (04:58) === [00:50:53] I think there is this minority that's very vocal on the right that, you know, says, hey, we don't like what he's doing. [00:50:59] Or, you know, Tucker Carlson and other people have been coming out against it. [00:51:02] But I think to me, that's this fringe that the vast majority of people are behind what Trump is doing. [00:51:09] Yeah. [00:51:10] Okay. [00:51:11] All right. [00:51:11] I'm laughing at some of these comments. [00:51:13] You guys are so freaking funny. [00:51:15] All right. [00:51:15] This is the time where I'm going to say, could you guys please give us a thumbs up, make comments on X, ring the bell, you know, give us a like. [00:51:24] It would really mean a lot to us. [00:51:25] There's one person on YouTube. [00:51:27] You go ahead and give your thumbs down. [00:51:30] You are committed to it. [00:51:32] No, no, he really, no, he really should. [00:51:37] He really should. [00:51:38] Can I just, all right, wait. [00:51:40] Okay, we're good, we're good. [00:51:42] Okay, so. [00:51:42] So thanks. [00:51:43] Okay. [00:51:43] Next story. [00:51:44] And I want to just, if you could just save me two minutes at the end, I would appreciate it. [00:51:47] Well, I just want to bash on Gavin Newsom for a while. [00:51:50] So let's go. [00:51:51] Let's go. [00:51:53] One is that Chevron sent a letter warning that this cap and trade policy that Newsom is passing or wanting to pass is going to cripple the industry in California. [00:52:03] That says the proposed regulation would cripple the survivability of the state's remaining refineries, which result in California losing the entire industry to this misguided program. [00:52:12] It will increase transportation and aviation fuel prices for consumers. [00:52:15] It will risk significant job losses, including many high-paying union jobs, while reducing funding for essential public services. [00:52:23] There's 530,000 jobs and $664 billion in taxes that come from this. [00:52:30] And they're claiming it would add 24 cents a gallon to the gas prices. [00:52:35] And even right now, the gas prices are, I think, $4.73 in California versus a national average of $3.19. [00:52:43] So it's going to make it worse. [00:52:46] At the same time, we have there's this LAX train that they were building between the airport and the downtown area. [00:52:55] And that was supposed to help with the World Cup transportation. [00:53:00] It was supposed to be done in 2023, and it's not done. [00:53:04] And it's not going to be done. [00:53:06] Apparently, it's 95% complete, and there were some kind of disputes, and they never finished it or never resolved them. [00:53:11] So it's not going to be ready in time for a World Cup. [00:53:14] And it's going to be a disaster when everybody descends on LA. [00:53:18] So more incompetence from LA leadership. [00:53:22] Trump's going to scoop in and save the day somehow with this. [00:53:26] I don't know if there's time. [00:53:28] I mean, I don't know if there's time to finish it at this point. [00:53:31] I think it was supposed to be done a long time ago, like, and it was 95% complete in 2024, but I don't know if there's enough time to finish it. [00:53:39] I suppose Trump, with his building expertise, could propose something, but I'm not sure how he would make it happen. [00:53:44] Yeah, Gavin is trying to become, oh, and sorry. [00:53:47] Gavin is trying to become the worst candidate ever, right? [00:53:51] To run for office. [00:53:52] I think he wants to beat Biden at this. [00:53:56] It looks like he's doing well. [00:53:57] And apparently he went on Jimmy Kimmel recently and he agreed that California is overregulated and that it's his fault. [00:54:05] So he made a statement like that we need a liberalism that builds and we have to own that. [00:54:13] And I'm very much a part of this sort of new nomenclature. [00:54:16] We call this abundance agenda. [00:54:18] And we got to reconcile that. [00:54:20] We've got to be more focused on time to delivery, not just rhetoric, not just what we're for. [00:54:24] We've got to actually deliver and manifest it. [00:54:26] And, you know, he's certainly been part of this. [00:54:29] He signed 784 new laws last year. [00:54:33] The homeless crisis is, you know, the worst in the United States. [00:54:38] Regulations all over the place. [00:54:40] So I'm sure to some extent he's probably behind the problems that are happening in LA and everywhere else in the state. [00:54:46] So yeah, Gavin is a terrible candidate, and I think he has a record to match. [00:54:51] Yeah, he's amazingly, he's like number one at being the worst for sure. [00:54:57] So and then on a positive note, the Trump administration has brokered a multi-million dollar gold agreement for the golden age, according to Axios, between the U.S. and Venezuela. [00:55:09] The Miner Minerban company, the mining company, will sell between 650 to 1,000 kilograms of high-purity gold door bars valued at more than $150 million to the global commodities trader Figura. [00:55:29] Say that fast. [00:55:31] The gold, which reaches 98% purity after refining, will be shipped directly to the refineries in the United States. [00:55:40] So Interior Secretary Doug Bergum helped finalize the deal recently in his recent visit to Caracas. [00:55:48] And, you know, the golden age needs gold. === Be Useful Today (04:21) === [00:55:51] That's right. [00:55:53] You know, bringing in the, you know, and a lot of people would be like, oh, the only reason Trump is there is to enrich himself, you know, in, you know, he's not, he's enriching the United States. [00:56:06] So this is a very big difference. [00:56:09] But of course, there's always two movies on one screen and the other side will always say the opposite. [00:56:15] That's right. [00:56:16] No matter what. [00:56:17] The optics are beautiful with the lady, the president of Venezuela next to Bergum and everybody. [00:56:24] It's always that unity that shows what can be done for the future of other countries if they work with us too along that. [00:56:32] That's right. [00:56:33] Erica, can I say one thing just to quickly, I'm going to give you two minutes. [00:56:37] By the way, so before when I said about the guy in the uniform, I don't promote that. [00:56:42] Oh, I know. [00:56:43] It's a good idea. [00:56:43] Okay. [00:56:44] You know, I have to make sure that because I saw a couple of comments there. [00:56:48] So it's horrible. [00:56:49] It's like burning the flag. [00:56:51] That's what they're doing, basically. [00:56:53] They're using that as a way to get attention. [00:56:55] It's horrible, but that's what they're doing. [00:56:58] Even negative attention is attention, right? [00:57:01] So yeah, it is attention seeking and he got his attention and we're never talking about him again. [00:57:06] And we're talking about him again. [00:57:08] Never again. [00:57:09] So persuasive. [00:57:11] So I just also wanted to mention that Lou Holtz has died. [00:57:15] Okay. [00:57:15] And he died at the age of 89. [00:57:19] And he's a legendary football coach for Notre Dame, right? [00:57:24] So there's something that Lou, Lou, because we're, you know, we're buddies like that. [00:57:29] So Lou had all of his players memorize this. [00:57:32] And I love this. [00:57:33] And I think it's so important. [00:57:36] So he'd have his players memorize this poem. [00:57:39] It's called What Will Today Bring. [00:57:42] And I just think it's so appropriate. [00:57:45] It says, this is the beginning of a new day. [00:57:48] God has given me this day to use as I will. [00:57:51] I can waste it or use it for good. [00:57:53] What I do today is important because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it. [00:57:58] When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something I have traded for it. [00:58:05] I want it to be gain, not loss, good, not evil, success, not failure, in order that I shall not regret the price I paid for it because the future is just a whole string of nows. [00:58:19] And I love that, you guys. [00:58:21] And it's just like how Scott would say, like, be useful. [00:58:24] Like every day he woke up to be useful. [00:58:27] And, you know, we are, we're trading a day of our life for whatever it is we're going to do today. [00:58:33] And the days that I'm like not being productive or I'm cranky or whatever, I'm like, oh, what a waste. [00:58:40] Like I get mad at myself. [00:58:41] Like, what a waste of this day and, you know, shake it off. [00:58:44] And so I just thought it was right on line with Scott's philosophy and, you know, what we, all of us, everybody that watches this show, you're all useful people. [00:58:56] Like you can't be here and be, you know, in love with Scott Adams and everything he taught us without in your heart being more useful, I feel like, than the next person. [00:59:08] So shout out to all of you guys. [00:59:11] You know, it's just been a newsy week. [00:59:13] So the news crew is coming back tomorrow. [00:59:16] We're going to finish the week up strong. [00:59:19] And in the meantime, you guys, thank you so much for showing up for us each day. [00:59:25] Thank you for hitting the like button, the subscribe button, all that stuff. [00:59:28] It really helps us. [00:59:30] And we love reading your chat. [00:59:33] So that being said, let's have a closing sip to Scott. [00:59:36] I love you guys. [00:59:38] I love you for us four together. [00:59:41] So sweet. [00:59:42] And I love all you guys in the chat. [00:59:44] Scott, we miss you so much. [00:59:47] And I know everybody, when this, when the simultaneous sip starts in the morning and we see his face on the screen, it's like a thousand times like stronger and beaming. [00:59:59] And we all feel it too. [01:00:00] I promise. [01:00:02] So anyway, I don't know, just to say that we miss you, Scott. [01:00:05] So closing sip to Scott and to all of you, let's go be useful today to Scott. [01:00:11] To Scott. [01:00:12] Be useful.